Lisa is the backbone of Double Whammies, and also of Support the Girls.
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Lisa, the general manager of a Texas sports bar called Double Whammies, spends a lot of time putting out fires.
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Support the Girls follows Lisa, a shift manager at Double Whammies, a Hooters-esque sports bar, over the course of one day.
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Lisa's biggest form of support at Double Whammies is Danyelle (Shayna McHayle, also known musically as Junglepussy), one of the few Black waitresses.
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In most movies, characters like her function as backdrop, and so do settings like Double Whammies — a neighborhood version of a place like Hooters.
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Whether the women of Double Whammies are building up a whimpering, wounded ego or escaping a dangerous situation, it's all there in Support the Girls.
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Whammies bills itself as a family place, and Lisa is a fierce den mother, protecting her staff with a zero-tolerance policy when customers misbehave.
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But it also says that Amazon isn't perfect and that cloud buyers should watch out for three surprising, potential whammies should they choose to patronize AWS.
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Support the Girls is a barely concealed double entendre of a title for a film set in an even less coy Hooters-style bar called Double Whammies.
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And that mentality, Support the Girls suggests, is what keeps a place like Double Whammies (or the identical chain restaurant moving in nearby, called "Mancave") in business.
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Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the manager at a Texas sports bar that's not unlike a Hooters (it's called Double Whammies), and she's having a rough day.
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Released in August and written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, the movie stars Hall as Lisa, the general manager of a Texas sports bar "breastaurant" called Double Whammies.
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Double Whammies provides an extreme backdrop from which to explore themes of sexual harassment and empowerment that have dominated the national conversation for the last year or so.
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Most of the film stretches over one day and focuses on Lisa (Regina Hall, in an outstanding performance), the longtime Double Whammies manager whose dependability extends far beyond the workplace.
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She's the grounding force in the comedy "Support the Girls," set in a Hooters-style restaurant called Double Whammies and written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, who's based in Austin.
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Every day, the waitresses — pretty girls in crop tops and cutoffs — serve beer and wings to the mostly male clientele, though Double Whammies insists it's a family-friendly "mainstream" place.
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Every day, the bar's waitresses — pretty girls in crop tops and cutoffs — serve beer and wings to the mostly male clientele, though Double Whammies insists it's a family-friendly "mainstream" place.
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Lisa, the put-upon manager of Double Whammies, carries a very gender-specific burden: She is a caretaker writ large, supporting not just her girls in the workplace, but seemingly everywhere else too.
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Support the Girls, from writer and director Andrew Bujalski, is a barely concealed double entendre of a title for a film set in an even less coy Hooters-style bar called Double Whammies.
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That's evident in this scene from Andrew Bujalski's latest comedy, "Support the Girls," starring Regina Hall as Lisa, who is spending the day trying to keep the peace as she manages the restaurant Double Whammies.
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Metacritic score: 85 Support the Girls, from writer and director Andrew Bujalski, is a barely concealed double entendre of a title for a film set in an even less coy Hooters-style bar called Double Whammies.
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, Support The Girls stars Regina Hall as Lisa, general manager of Double Whammies, a "boobs, brews and big screens" sports bar where the waitresses are as friendly as their midriffs are bare.
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To top it all off, one of her employees is in a financial bind after hitting an ex-boyfriend with her car, and Whammies' gross owner, Cubbie (James LeGros) is threatening to fire her, despite her obvious skills.
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Set in a Hooters-inspired restaurant called Double Whammies, Lisa's role as general manager requires her to manage a staff of young waitresses who have to use their sex appeal for tips without crossing the family-friendly line.
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And the hypocrisy of Double Whammies' use of female breasts and legs to lure customers while insisting that it's a "family place" is a direct reflection of the American habit of obsessing over women's sexuality while shaming them for it.
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But it points out that cloud buyers should watch out for three surprising potential whammies when betting on AWS: Prices that can be higher than expected, new features that aren't quite ready for prime time, and Amazon's own reputation as an aggressive competitor.
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As the day wears on toward the big fight that evening — and the increased tips that will go along with it — the girls of Double Whammies navigate problems like Lisa's, hoping to get to the end of the day and making the best of whatever situations they're handed.
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Lisa is the main character, and we follow her throughout her day, discovering that there are other male characters — notably her useless ex-husband, whom she's helping find a place to live, as well as the abusive boyfriend of a former Double Whammies waitress she's been looking after — who are slowly driving her to her breaking point.
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But where Sorry to Bother You is a wildly imaginative dance through a near-future Oakland, Support the Girls visits an unspecified, strip mall-filled city to chronicle a day in the life of the staff of Double Whammies, a Hooters-esque sports bar that caters to the fantasy of men who just want to watch the game, ogle some women, and drink a beer in peace.
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Critique in terms of current genetic research is that there are many candidates for copy number variants that may predispose a likelihood of developing schizophrenia but current research is flawed by both the sample sizes available for analysis by condition population and by an incomplete understanding of 'double whammies' where one allele affects another. "CNV 'Double Whammies' May Account for Variable Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes" This has also been referred to as genetic 'dark matter' with the notion that many rare mutations have not yet been discovered.
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The interviewer tells Lisa that ManCave waitresses are unintelligent and easily replaced. Lisa, Maci and Danyelle sit on the rooftop drinking liquor stolen from Double Whammies and contemplate their future employment before letting out cathartic screams.
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Marvin Cooper (born c. 1943) is a former dancer who performed under the stage name Dancing Harry at professional basketball games. He danced on the sidelines during timeouts and gave whammies to the opposing team. Cooper performed in both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Baltimore Bullets, New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets and the Indiana Pacers.
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A player who hit the Double Whammy space would also have mischief on the player, although this version had more slime and pies rather than various objects related to United States version. A player who hits the Double Whammy space is only charged one Whammy. As is the case with the franchise, four Whammies eliminates a player from the game. The contestant that has the highest money earned will be the winner.
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These attacks may be performed during normal play or to eliminate nearly-destroyed cars in a method called "Totaling." In line with the fighting-game style element, players can also score up to six combo hits called Whammies. There are special icons scattered across the playing field; wrenches repair damage and yellow zigzag lines temporarily jam the opponent's homing-based weapons. Certain objectives in Story Mode must be completed to help unlock the game's secret characters and stages.
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This square later became Double Your $$ + One Spin, awarding an extra spin in addition to the multiplied cash amount. Add-A-One added a "1" to the front of the contestant's current score (e.g., $0 became $10; $500 became $1,500; and $2,000 became $12,000). The third, $2000 or Lose-1-Whammy, offered the contestant a choice of adding $2,000 to his/her score ($2,000 was automatically added if the contestant had no Whammies), or removing a Whammy received earlier in the game.
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Lisa is the general manager of the sports bar and breastaurant Double Whammies. She takes her job seriously, protecting her employees from inappropriate or rude interactions with customers. Despite her commitment to the restaurant, her incompetent boss, Cubby, has repeatedly threatened to fire her. His ire is provoked when Lisa has her employees host an off-the-books car wash to raise money for an employee, Shaina, who has hit her abusive boyfriend with her car and is staying at Lisa's house.
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The second and final round board has much higher values ranging from P1,250 to P125,000, and is also added with special prizes by the sponsors of the show. Their value is PHP60,000 - P50,000 cash and P10,000 worth of the sponsor's product (now P100,000 to P150,000). If two or all three players were tied, the player with the fewest spins went first; if they were tied for that as well, the player to the hosts' left went first. The Double Whammy space is marked with two Whammies.
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If the champion accumulates four Whammies, the bonus game ends immediately. The maximum dollar amounts for the five rounds are $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $75,000, and $100,000. Prize values increase from one round to the next. For the fifth round, referred to as the "Big Bucks Bonanza," all cash and cash-plus-a-spin spaces only show one of the five maximum values. A "$7,000 or Lose a Whammy" space is added to the board in the second round, with the value increasing to $10,000 in the third and $15,000 in the fourth.
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Gameplay remained largely similar to Press Your Luck, with contestants accumulating cash and prizes and attempting to avoid landing on a Whammy, who took away the winnings of any contestant who landed on it. At the start of the game, each of the three contestants was spotted $1,000 and took turns taking one spin at a time on the board.Brooks 2009, pp. 1503 After each cycle of spins, additional Whammies were added to the board replacing cash values or prizes, and contestants chose to spin again or freeze with their score at that point.
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Landing on any Whammy space caused the contestant to go bankrupt and start over from $0, accompanied by an animation that showed the Whammy taking the loot, but frequently being blown up or otherwise humiliated in the process. The Whammies were created and animated by Savage Steve Holland and Bill Kopp, and voiced by Bill Carruthers. A new weekly prime time version hosted by Elizabeth Banks and announced by Neil Ross began airing on ABC on June 12, 2019, and continued as a limited summer series. The series was renewed for another season which premiered on May 31, 2020.
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Spins awarded from hitting spaces offering them were placed in the earned column, and hitting a Whammy caused the contestant's remaining passed spins to move to the earned column, allowing the contestant to pass. Play continued until the contestants exhausted all of their spins, or earned a total of four Whammies, in which they were eliminated from the game and their remaining spins (if any) forfeited. Once all spins had been played, a second round of trivia questions followed with the same rules as before. A second Big Board round followed, with much higher stakes in play.
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If the contestant landed on a space that awarded money and an additional spin, the contestant received the money and the spin, but the home player only received the money. If the contestant landed on a prize instead of money, then the home viewer would also win that prize. At the close of the October–November 1985 contest, that episode's in- studio winner drew a card from a bowl containing the names of each of the 75 at-home participants featured over the five-week period. After drawing the name, the contestant took one spin on a modified board that showed only cash values and directional squares (no Whammies, prizes, or cash amounts with additional spins were present).
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